Unregistered Land Conveyancing - A Practical Workshop

Introduction

This practical course, aimed at trainees and junior solicitors, will give you the confidence to do unregistered land conveyancing. You will learn by working with unregistered title documents* how to establish a good root, a good chain of ownership, and which requisitions on title need to be raised, and those which can be safely ignored.

The seminar will not be a lecture on unregistered land conveyancing or a review of how unregistered land conveyancing differs from registered land conveyancing. It will be a practical and interactive session.

*Facsimile titles have been prepared which attendees will work through.

What You Will Learn

This seminar will cover the following:

• A practical and easy-to-use method to investigate an unregistered title - so you don’t miss anything, but don’t waste time
• Identifying a good root, establishing a good chain of ownership, and spotting the gaps
• Speed reading Deeds of Conveyance and Abstracts of Title - identifying what is there, what needs to be there, and what does it mean?
• Going behind the root?
• Using the safety measures provided by statute and caselaw to protect conveyancers and their clients
• Pragmatic ways to deal with historic drafting errors
• Death, Grants of Representation, and endorsed memoranda
• Deeds of Assent
• Capacity - beneficial owners, survivors of joint tenants, trustees and PRs
• Land Charges Searches - when, against who, and for what period?
• Drafting and reviewing the unregistered land contract
• Deed packs - sorting out ‘the wheat from the chaff’